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[Inter-laboratory reproducibility of pulsed-field electrophoresis for the study of 12 types of Pseudomonas aeruginosa].
Pathologie-biologie - 1 Dec 1999
Foissaud V, Puyhardy J M, Chapalain J C, Salord H, Depina J J, Morillon M, Nicolas P, Perrier-Gros-Claude J D
Abstract excerpt
The increasing hospital-to-hospital transmission of multiple drug-resistant bacteria is a major concern for bacteriology laboratories involved in nosocomial infection control. The interlaboratory reproducibility of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) for Pseudomonas aeruginosa typing was evaluated by asking four hospital laboratories (two in Lyon, one in Brest, and one in Marseille) to study 11 P. aeruginosa...
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